The iPhone can clean up fallen trees (and if it’s on a blog it MUST be true)

So you may not have heard, but the iPhone is being released on Friday. Although if you haven’t heard, that is a big old rock you’ve been living under. Or you’ve been on Mars. I do hear it’s lovely there this time of year.

I guess that there is a running pool here about who will be the first Seapine person to get one. Apparently I’m in the top two along with Rick. If I were a betting man (which I am) I would not wage heavily on me though. Don’t get me wrong, I still would love to get one but I just don’t see that happening immediately.

It isn’t for lack of trying, I’ve even taken a two pronged approach to it. I figured that while I would try to convince my wife to use our money I would also try to talk Seapine into using its money. Given the amazing similarity of the responses from both sides I’m beginning to think that they’ve unionized against me.

And all this was before a tree in my yard fell down last night in the storm. Now my wife has to decide if she wants to spend money on a tree service to haul it away or green light me getting a chain saw. There’s a proverbial no win situation, although at least one of those options doesn’t involve me accidentally cutting a leg off. The lesson here is now there’s a “Looks like we have to use the iPhone money for something else” situation rearing its head. Stupid tree.

But enough about my sorry state of affairs. I’m sure the iPhone madness, insanity, and all around general bizarreness will be over soon. At the very least the current media storm will switch to a new media storm when the AT&T network belches, rolls over, and starts making crazy animal noises due to the crush of new users with unlimited data plans.

Hey wait, I just got an idea. I wonder if I can convince someone that an iPhone can somehow be used as a crude downed tree removal tool? The reviews say it doesn’t scratch, although acting as a handsaw probably isn’t what they had in mind. Regardless, I’ve got a new angle baby, I’m back in the game.